DALLAS (CBSDFW/1080 KRLD)- Former Cleveland Browns QBJohnny Manzielhas officially been indicted by a Dallas Grand Jury on a charge of assault causing bodily injury. The indictment says in January of this year, Manziel caused injury to then girlfriend Colleen Crowley by striking her with his han...
The penalties for simple assault and aggravated assault in Texas can be severe, ranging all the way from fines and probation to as many as 99 years in prison upon conviction. The severity of the penalties varies based on the severity of your accusations — specifically, whether or not you ar...
Assault Bodily Injury Against a Family Member: Hypothetical Scenario: Assault by Contact and Assault By Threat: ** Confinement in the Texas Juvenile Justice Department (TJJD), which is the prison for juveniles, is not a possible punishment for misdemeanor juvenile assaults Why are fights common a...
“Valentine did not get special treatment,” he said. “He got the opposite.” In early January, Valentine struck a plea deal with prosecutors. He pleaded guilty to a lesser offense — a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury — and was sentenced ...
Under Texas criminal law, an assault charge can result from causing or threatening to cause bodily injury to another person, whether it is intentional or through other reckless conduct. Additionally, you can be charged if you knowingly and intentionally make physical contact with someone else when ...
Under the Texas Penal Code, one can be convicted of assault if one “intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes or threatens bodily injury to another person” or if one “intentionally or knowingly causes physical contact with another person or persons with the knowledge that the person will co...
If the victim is a child under the age of 17, the law presumes the child cannot consent, so any penetration of the child’s anus, mouth, or female sexual organ, or causing the anus, mouth, or sexual organ of a child to contact that of another person, is sexual assault. However, ...
Diana Rodriguez pled guilty to felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon and corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant, with sentencing enhancements for causing great bodily injury in a domestic violence incident. Prosecutors dropped a felony count of mayhem, as well as three misdemeanor counts...
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Shepersky pleaded guilty in February through a Norgaard plea to 2nd-degree assault with a dangerous weapon causing substantial bodily harm. A Norgaard plea is where a defendant claims they were too drunk or under the influence of chemicals to recall the facts of what happened.According...